‘ealth-and-safety. Try Google for some ‘rich’ examples resulting in unnecessary demises. Not a continental concept, or practiced there. Never mind that ‘PC madness’ is not a problem of ‘ages’ -it’s a rather recent phemomenon.
No, as horrid as the EU bureaucracy is, the UK has only itself to blame for the idiocy exemplified by the thread topic, and looking for outside scape goats won’t properly address the underlying problems.
Since this was foisted on the UK by avowedly pro-EU politicians, I cannot say the same.